Abu Sayed vs Obadh

Write Bangla naturally—and keep your words on your device. Abu Sayed is a privacy-first Bangla keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Normal keyboard typing works fully offline. Your keystrokes, suggestions, learned words and typing statistics are not sent to any server. There are no ads, behavioral tracking or third-party analytics SDKs. TYPE YOUR WAY • Phonetic transliteration, Probhat and National (Jatiya) layouts • More than half a million bundled Bangla words • Offline suggestions, autocorrect and next-word prediction • On-device learning that adapts to the words and candidates you choose • Interface in Bangla and English • Themes, key sizing, number row and text shortcuts • Typing tutorial and Banglish converter PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY • Basic typing works without Full Access • Full Access is optional. It enables local sharing between the app and keyboard, plus the clipboard panel you open yourself • No automatic cloud sync for learned words, clipboard history or typing statistics • Learning is disabled whenever a password, one-time-code, username, email, credit-card, URL, phone or numeric field is detected • Learned data can be viewed, exported or deleted from Settings • Privacy Proof explains the keyboard’s boundaries in the app VOICE TYPING IS SEPARATE The keyboard extension does not use the microphone. Voice Typing is an optional feature in the main app. It asks for microphone and speech-recognition permission. When on-device Bangla recognition is unavailable, Apple’s speech service may process the audio. Abu Sayed operates no voice server. Named in memory of Shaheed Abu Sayed, this keyboard honors the courage to express yourself in Bangla without giving up your privacy.

Obadh is a free Bangla keyboard for iPhone and iPad that looks and acts exactly like Apple's default keyboard. The keys match the system layout perfectly across all device sizes, whether you use portrait, landscape, light mode, or dark mode. iPad users can flick down on a key to type numbers and symbols, just like they do on the built-in keyboard. There is nothing new you have to learn to use it. It runs fast on both new and older phones, so you never have to wait for the keyboard to catch up to your fingers. The autocorrect uses a dictionary of over 845,000 Bangla words, alongside the English words people normally mix in. Instead of forcing corrections, what you type stays first in the suggestion strip. Your text only changes if you specifically tap a correction. Over time, the keyboard learns your slang, names, and brands to offer them as suggestions later. Typing Bangla words will also bring up the matching emoji in the suggestion strip, and there is a searchable emoji keyboard built right in. Obadh is entirely free and open-source under the MIT license, with no ads, subscriptions, or logins required. When you download it, the app walks you through the setup steps. Turning on Full Access is optional, but you will need it if you want haptic feedback and for the keyboard to remember your custom words.